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8R1 What have we been doing?

So far we have been having a look at tenses and in particular the perfect (past) tense. We know that it describes what has happened and is finished and is made up of 3 bits:

1. person/thing doing the verb

2. appropriate part of the verb avoir (or être – more on that later) that matches the person – see avoir sheet

3. past participle, remember infinitives ending in -er change to é,infinitives ending in -ir change to i and infinitives ending in -re change to u.